How to start Affiliate Marketing Business in 2021

Many of us are at home because of the corona virus. The pandemic  has made majority of us are in lockdown, even in areas that aren't and has caused a lot of us to stay at home and since we mostly pass our time at home, this is the best time to start an affiliate marketing business.

What is affiliate Marketing

    Before we go into details on how to start an affiliate marketing business, you first need to know what is affiliate marketing.

  

   The fastest and easiest way to make money online, is by earning what we called a commission 

So, in affiliate marketing, your role is to be reffering someone else product, business or any their service they will provide and once any person or customer buys their product through your shared link(Affiliate links) you will earn a commission.

In my opinion affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online.

So, now you know some concept of what's affiliate marketing.

How to start an affiliate marketing business?

To start, you simply have to go through 3 steps below.

Step 1: Choose a Product

No matter your niche, you can find affiliate products that you can promote or share and earn money.

Step2: Create Content about the 

product 

   You need to create a valuable content about your product either a tutorial or a review. The main key is the content.

Step3: Driving traffic to your content

There are many ways to drive traffic to your content. You can create a website, write articles about you content using tumblr and improve your search engine optimization.

Share links in your content 

 As you notice in this blog, there are links and a way to improve your audience with content is to write articles about your product you want to promote and share and most important adding affiliate links in your article or try making videos about the product.

       The most important thing about sharing links is it's completely passive. That's when someone reads your blog, he or she is likely to click on you links.

Another method of sharing content is simply by making videos.If you can fim yourself doing a small tutorial or reviewing the product which is thesame like writing an article but the difference here is you talking about the product on camera.Many people like watching videos instead of simply reading and this is a good opportunity to have viewers.

Online Courses

Another to share your affiliate links is to provide online courses.

 Any person can create a free online course and publish it online. 

You can create one in udemy

Email marketing

Yes, you can promote your affiliate links with email marketing and am not talking about spamming.

Here am talking about to build an email list.

In this strategy, when some one visits your website. There is a form which will appear to the visitor immediately like the one above.

Which the person will need to sign up for newsletter or more tips about what the blog is talking about. 

 That's a simple method to get traffic to affiliate links and to build your email list.

Then start sending newsletter about the blog post and also your videos.

Make sure to keep your content interesting to keep your subscribers for them to continue opening your emails

Conclusion

1.The very first lesson from this article,content is the key

2. Donot share your affiliate links to your followers directly

3. Provide valuable content. The content can be 

A blog

Online courses

YouTube video

4. When your content has been posted and you start having followers, you can you can promote your content on social media.

5. No matter where you share your your content either through paid ads or social media, don't share your affiliate links directly

Lastly you can also  share your content through email marketing as explained above and most important avoid spamming.

Please if you have  any idea or other strategies to promote the affiliate links, please make sure to type them in the comment section for more information to start an affiliate marketing business so we all learn from it.

Hope you really enjoyed the quick reading and I will be very happy waiting for your ideas and info in the comment section below.